Battle of Mistelbach

The Battle of Mistelbach (late August 1805) was a battle of the Napoleonic Wars that occurred when the Grande Armee marshal Michel Ney and a French army of 1,851 troops crushed an uprising by Peter Radetsky and his army of 1,542 Austrian revolutionaries in the Lower Austria region of northern Austria. The French had to assault the Austrians across the Danube River, and the French managed to distract the Austrians with a cavalry attack over a bridge on the French right flank. The French battalions crossed the river to form battle lines on the same bank as the Austrian revolutionary army, and the French succeeded in destroying the inexperienced Austrian troops after a fierce combination of musketry and savage melee combat. French cavalrymen chased down retreating Austrian revolutionaries and massacred them, the Austrians were decisively defeated, ending their uprising.